Category Archives: Teaching and Learning

Great news was announced earlier this week: high school graduates rates rose to the highest point in almost 40 years. Even more encouraging is that graduation rates among Hispanics jumped “almost 10 points since 2006,” according to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. The information comes from a new report from NCES (the National Center of Education Statistics) on 2009-2010 graduation and dropout rates entered into the Common Core of Data.